Advice for When You Teleconference
Tips for Teleconferencing Use emotion in your voice. Emphasize emotion so you don’t speak in a flat tone. Use metaphors and similes to create word pictures for others. Revised – yay still true from 09/11/2017
Conclusion for Presenting, Persuading, and Winning
Conclusion for Presenting, Persuading, and Winning The natural tendency of human beings is to: Justify on facts, but buy on feeling Justify with business reasons, but buy for personal reasons Justify with logic, but buy on emotion Rerun from June 05, 2017
English Speaking Skills: A Job Interview as an Audition
English Speaking Skills: A Job Interview as an Audition A great tip for job interviewing : Think of the job interview as an audition. Most people put lots of energy into getting an interview. But many fall down during the actual interview. Why? Poor planning and a lack of practice. What to do? Stage a […]
Communication Skills and Changing Times
Communication Skills and Changing Times Times have changed. Yesterday, the most qualified person got the job. Today, among equal qualifications, the best communicator gets the job. Rerun from 05/29/2017
English Communication: The Clarity is Simple
English Communication: The Clarity is Simple All of life is relationship. Love, compassion, helping, encouraging. Hope, faith. April 2, on his birthday, my beloved passed. I, more than anyone, know which words were his. Which ideas sprang from his fertile mind. Where the science is that he was chief architect for. Our evolution springs forth […]
Communication Skills
Communication Skills According to a survey of faculty members at engineering schools: Opinion of the faculty members was that 15% of an engineer’s future success depends on his or her engineering skills, while 85% depends upon communication skills. Rerun from 05/22/2017
English Communication: The Clarity is Simple
English Communication: The Clarity is Simple All of life is relationship. Love, compassion, helping, encouraging. Hope, faith. April 2, on his birthday, my beloved passed. I, more than anyone, know which words were his. Which ideas sprang from his fertile mind. Where the science is that he was chief architect for. Our evolution springs forth […]
English Speaking: The Grammar is in the Pronunciation, Part Two
English Speaking: The Grammar is in the Pronunciation, Part Two Last time, I told you about how the grammar is in the pronunciation of “ed” for regular verbs for past tense and grammar “s” for subject and verb agreement. You also got that the grammar is in the pronunciation of grammar “s” for plurals and […]
English Speaking – Grammar, Pronunciation, And Magical Changes in Words
English Speaking – Grammar, Pronunciation, And Magical Changes in Words Once my genius linguist and priest pointed out that “grammar is in the pronunciation,” I starting seeing so, so many instances of this. Some of my favorites are suffixes and prefixes. Those are the little syllables that we put on the end of the word […]
Visual Aids
Visual Aids Visual Aids Learning is improved up to 200% (Study at University of Wisconsin) Retention is improved up to 38% (Studies at Harvard and Columbia) Time to explain complex subjects is reduced by 25% and 40% (Study at Wharton School of Business) Rerun from 02/17/2014 05/08/2017